- Use explicit loaded flag for heightmap instead of checking height values
- Increase player collision radius from 0.50 to 0.55 for better wall collision
Save/load floor cache per map (e.g., cache/wmo_floor_Azeroth.bin) instead
of a single global file. Saves current zone's cache before teleporting,
loads target zone's cache after terrain streaming completes.
Add precomputeFloorCache() method that samples all WMO bounds at load time
and populates the persistent floor height grid. Called after terrain
streaming completes (initial spawn and teleport) when cache is empty.
- Add texture-sorted batch merging with glMultiDrawElements to reduce draw calls
- Pre-compute merged batches at load time instead of per-frame
- Add persistent floor height cache with disk save/load (cache/wmo_floor_cache.bin)
- Reduce collision focus radius and sweep steps for faster collision checks
- Add floor cache size to performance HUD
- Reduce WMO group distance culling to 80 units
Renders bounding boxes in depth-only pre-pass and queries GPU for
visibility. Groups fully occluded in previous frame are skipped.
Significantly improves performance in dense areas like Stormwind.
Portal-based visibility culling for WMO rendering (disabled by default,
needs debugging for complex WMOs like Stormwind). Skip character creation
screen when characters already exist in single-player mode.
Save SHA1(UPPER(user):UPPER(pass)) hash to login.cfg instead of the
plaintext password. On subsequent logins, use the stored hash directly
with a new authenticateWithHash() method that bypasses password hashing.
The password field shows a placeholder when using a stored hash.
Render an animated M2 character model in the creation screen using a
dedicated CharacterRenderer with an offscreen FBO. Preview updates on
race/gender/appearance changes, supports mouse-drag rotation, and
composites skin, face, hair scalp, and underwear textures from
CharSections.dbc. Extracts getPlayerModelPath() to a shared free
function in game/character.
The charCreateCallback was firing synchronously during ImGui render,
causing a state transition before the create screen's ImGui::End() was
called. Defer the callback to GameHandler::update() and ensure update()
runs during CHARACTER_CREATION and CHARACTER_SELECTION states.
Implements a full character creation UI integrated into the existing flow.
In single-player mode, auth screen now goes to character creation before
entering the world. In online mode, a "Create Character" button on the
character selection screen sends CMSG_CHAR_CREATE to the server. Includes
WoW 3.3.5a race/class combo validation and appearance range limits.
Three critical bugs fixed:
- LOGON_CHALLENGE request: set protocol byte to 0x03 (was 0x00) and
reverse FourCC strings (game/platform/os/locale) to match real client
- Response parsers: remove double-read of opcode byte that shifted all
field reads by one, preventing successful auth with real servers
- LOGON_PROOF response sizes: success=32 bytes, failure=4 bytes to match
TrinityCore/AzerothCore format
Also adds missing auth result codes (0x13-0x20, 0xFF) including
IGR_WITHOUT_BNET (0x17) which Warmane was returning.
Replace the 3D top-down rendered minimap with WoW's native pre-rendered
BLP tile textures loaded via md5translate.trs. Tiles are composited into
a 3x3 grid FBO with proper axis transposition matching the ADT terrain
convention. The screen shader provides camera-rotation, circular mask,
directional player arrow, and 20% transparency. Minimap is now on by
default with the N toggle key removed.
Teleporter panel (T key) lets the player teleport between Goldshire,
Stormwind Gate, Ironforge, and Westfall in single-player mode. Adds
serverToCanonical/canonicalToServer conversion at the network packet
boundary so positions are compatible with TrinityCore/MaNGOS/AzerothCore
emulator servers.
Centralizes all coordinate conversions in core/coordinates.hpp with
proper canonical WoW coords (+X=North, +Y=West, +Z=Up). Fixes critical
tile calculation bug that was loading wrong surrounding tiles during
terrain streaming, and fixes position sync sending ADT-raw format
instead of canonical coordinates to the server.
Render the world into an off-screen MSAA RGBA16F framebuffer, resolve
to a regular texture, then blit to screen via a fullscreen quad shader.
This sets up the infrastructure for future HDR tonemapping and SSAO
(depth texture preserved for sampling). Currently a passthrough until
HDR light sources are added. Login screen bypasses the FBO and renders
directly to the default framebuffer.
Anisotropic filtering now queries GL_MAX_TEXTURE_MAX_ANISOTROPY_EXT once
and applies via a single applyAnisotropicFiltering() utility, replacing
hardcoded calls across all renderers. Fog (sky horizon color, 100-600
range) and Blinn-Phong specular highlights are added to WMO, M2, and
character shaders for visual parity with terrain. Shadow sampling
plumbing (sampler2DShadow with 3x3 PCF) is wired into all three shaders
gated by uShadowEnabled, ready for a future shadow map pass.
Replace UV scroll workaround for chimney smoke with proper GL_POINTS
particle system. Smoke particles rise, expand, drift, and fade over
4-7 seconds. One in eight particles spawns as a bright orange/red
ember spark. Enable 4x multisample antialiasing for smoother edges
on player models, fences, and foliage.
- Parse global sequence durations from M2 binary and use them in bone
interpolation so torches, candles, and other env doodads animate.
- Add UV scroll shader effect for smoke models (HouseSmoke, SmokeStack)
as a workaround for unimplemented M2 particle emitters.
- Tighten WMO floor probe heights to prevent multi-story buildings from
returning the wrong floor, fixing player clipping through inn floors
and camera locking onto the second floor.
- Use player ground level as reference for camera orbit floor collision
so the camera doesn't fight upper floors in buildings.
- Loading screen stays visible until all terrain tiles finish streaming;
character spawns only after terrain is loaded and Z-snapped to ground
- Reduce tree trunk collision bounds (5% of canopy, capped at 5.0) and
make all small/medium trees, bushes, lily pads, and foliage walkthrough
- Add jump input buffering (150ms) and coyote time (100ms) for responsive jumps
- Fix fence orientation by adding +180° heading rotation
- Increase terrain load radius from 1 to 2 (5x5 tile grid)
- Add hearthstone callback for single-player camera reset
- Add idle variation system: creatures randomly play Stand variations
(stretch, flap, look around) every 4-10s, then return to idle loop
- Deduplicate M2 instances at same position (was hidden before animation
made duplicates visible with different random start times)
- Adaptive M2 render distance: 350 units in open terrain, 180 in cities
- Restore terrain sampler-to-unit uniform bindings lost during texture
bind optimization (roads were invisible under grass)
- Safety: clamp bone count to 128, validate sequence indices, sanitize scale
- Implement GPU bone skinning for M2 doodads/creatures (gryphons, birds)
- Store bone hierarchy and animation keyframes per model
- Compute bone matrices per-instance with keyframe interpolation
- Upload bone weights/indices in vertex buffer, skinning in vertex shader
- Fix terrain texture rendering: restore sampler-to-unit uniform bindings
removed during texture bind optimization (roads were invisible)
- Add spellbook screen (P key) with Spell.dbc name lookup and action bar assignment
- Default Attack and Hearthstone spells available in single player
- Fix WMO floor clipping (gryphon roost) by tightening ceiling rejection threshold
- Darken ocean water, increase wave motion and opacity
- Add M2 model distance fade-in to prevent pop-in
- Reposition chat window, add slash/enter key focus
- Remove debug key commands (keep only F1 perf HUD, N minimap)
- Performance: return chat history by const ref, use deque for O(1) pop_front
